A selection of great poems from centuries of brillant authors and poets. Whether you are new to the world of poetry and wish to savor it, or a well-versed poetry connoisseur, either way you will probably enjoy the classics of world poetry.

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Great Poems

Votes PoemAuthor

2239InvictusWilliam Ernest Henley

1095IfRudyard Kipling

808I Loved YouAlexander Pushkin

527Love Sonnet XVIIPablo Neruda

387The Road not TakenRobert Frost

343Annabel LeeEdgar Allan Poe

336Sonnet 116William Shakespeare

219A Dream within a DreamEdgar Allan Poe

171A Book of VersesOmar Khayyam

120She Walks in BeautyLord Byron

109Pleasure in the Pathless WoodsLord Byron

106Give All to LoveRalph Waldo Emerson

102The Unseen PlaymateRobert Louis Stevenson

99When you are oldWilliam Butler Yeats

82Because She Would Ask MeChristopher Brennan

70Life is but a DreamLewis Carroll

68Admit It and Change EverythingRumi

58How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)Elizabeth Barrett Browning

57Sonnet 18William Shakespeare

51Love's SecretWilliam Blake

42O Me! O Life!Walt Whitman

40Love Sonnet XIPablo Neruda

38He Wishes For The Cloths Of HeavenWilliam Butler Yeats

33BirdsongRumi

33The Gardener - 41Rabindranath Tagore

32IthacaC.P. Cavafy

31The Second ComingWilliam Butler Yeats

30UlyssesAlfred, Lord Tennyson

27Extinguish Thou My EyesRainer Maria Rilke

26SongJohn Keats

25Love Sonnet XLVPablo Neruda

24For Each Ecstatic InstantEmily Dickinson

24RememberChristina Georgina Rossetti

23Love Not MeJohn Wilbye

21A Moment to RememberAlexander Pushkin

21Life in a LoveRobert Browning

21Music, When Soft Voices DiePercy Bysshe Shelley

21No TearsAlexander Pushkin

21Visible RealityRumi

21Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight?Christopher Marlowe

19Ah, My BelovedOmar Khayyam

19Ode: Intimations Of ImmortalityWilliam Wordsworth

19The Passionate PilgrimWilliam Shakespeare

19The Passionate Shepherd to His LoveChristopher Marlowe

18Wondrous MomentAlexander Pushkin

17Now Sleeps the Crimson PetalAlfred, Lord Tennyson

17She Dwelt among the Untrodden WaysWilliam Wordsworth

17The Rose in the Deeps of his HeartWilliam Butler Yeats

17Youth and AgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge

16EchoChristina Georgina Rossetti

16Foreign LandsRobert Louis Stevenson

16Rumors from an Aeolian HarpHenry David Thoreau

15The Gardener - 40Rabindranath Tagore

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